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Title: Elastic-Waveform Inversion with Compressive Sensing for Sparse Seismic Data

Abstract

Accurate velocity models of compressional- and shear-waves are essential for geothermal reservoir characterization and microseismic imaging. Elastic-waveform inversion of multi-component seismic data can provide high-resolution inversion results of subsurface geophysical properties. However, the method requires seismic data acquired using dense source and receiver arrays. In practice, seismic sources and/or geophones are often sparsely distributed on the surface and/or in a borehole, such as 3D vertical seismic profiling (VSP) surveys. We develop a novel elastic-waveform inversion method with compressive sensing for inversion of sparse seismic data. We employ an alternating-minimization algorithm to solve the optimization problem of our new waveform inversion method. We validate our new method using synthetic VSP data for a geophysical model built using geologic features found at the Raft River enhanced-geothermal-system (EGS) field. We apply our method to synthetic VSP data with a sparse source array and compare the results with those obtained with a dense source array. Our numerical results demonstrate that the velocity models produced with our new method using a sparse source array are almost as accurate as those obtained using a dense source array.

Authors:
 [1];  [1]
  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Geophysics Group
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Geothermal Technologies Office
OSTI Identifier:
1168704
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-20434; SGP-TR-204
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Conference: 14. Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford, CA (United States), 26-28 Jan 2015
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; Planetary Sciences; elastic-waveform inversion; compressional and shear waves; compressive sensing; vertical seismic profiling

Citation Formats

Lin, Youzuo, and Huang, Lianjie. Elastic-Waveform Inversion with Compressive Sensing for Sparse Seismic Data. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.2172/1168704.
Lin, Youzuo, & Huang, Lianjie. Elastic-Waveform Inversion with Compressive Sensing for Sparse Seismic Data. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1168704
Lin, Youzuo, and Huang, Lianjie. 2015. "Elastic-Waveform Inversion with Compressive Sensing for Sparse Seismic Data". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1168704. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1168704.
@article{osti_1168704,
title = {Elastic-Waveform Inversion with Compressive Sensing for Sparse Seismic Data},
author = {Lin, Youzuo and Huang, Lianjie},
abstractNote = {Accurate velocity models of compressional- and shear-waves are essential for geothermal reservoir characterization and microseismic imaging. Elastic-waveform inversion of multi-component seismic data can provide high-resolution inversion results of subsurface geophysical properties. However, the method requires seismic data acquired using dense source and receiver arrays. In practice, seismic sources and/or geophones are often sparsely distributed on the surface and/or in a borehole, such as 3D vertical seismic profiling (VSP) surveys. We develop a novel elastic-waveform inversion method with compressive sensing for inversion of sparse seismic data. We employ an alternating-minimization algorithm to solve the optimization problem of our new waveform inversion method. We validate our new method using synthetic VSP data for a geophysical model built using geologic features found at the Raft River enhanced-geothermal-system (EGS) field. We apply our method to synthetic VSP data with a sparse source array and compare the results with those obtained with a dense source array. Our numerical results demonstrate that the velocity models produced with our new method using a sparse source array are almost as accurate as those obtained using a dense source array.},
doi = {10.2172/1168704},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1168704}, journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}